That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
SINCLAIR LEWISCure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues.
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An it isn’t so much that the church is in bondage to Big Business and doctrines as laid down by millionaires – though a lot of churches are that, too.
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Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.
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So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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You’ve been telling us about how to secure peace, but come on, now, General-just among us Rotarians and Rotary Anns-‘fess up!
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Funny how the world always praises its opera-singers so much and pays ’em so well and then starves its shoemakers, and yet it needs good shoes so much more than it needs opera–or war or fiction.
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If travel were so inspiring and informing a business … then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.
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I love America, but I don’t like it.
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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn “reasonable” and become your enemies.
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The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
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We’d get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.
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